International Criminal Law

Such a legal framework could be transformative for so many who have been left out or on the margins of existing mechanisms, including women.

At times the baton was dropped; at other times, drafters successfully overcame the hurdles in the process, as with the ICC Statute.

The answer is to fully enact international criminal law at the national level and to provide for its maximum reach.

It is a matter of historical curiosity, and it's time for the UN to reunite genocide with its genus by concluding a parallel treaty.

A successful treaty will prompt States to adopt stronger national laws and cooperate with each other to stop atrocities.

Crimes against humanity is the only international crime not governed by its own treaty. It's time to formally recognize such heinous conduct.

Such a convention could dispel the notion that only genocide deserves international sanction and attention.

Justice Richard Goldstone, a former international prosecutor says the changes will make it more efficient, results-oriented, and accountable.

Evidence of international crimes is at risk in Afghanistan - endangering witnesses, victims, and the pursuit of justice. The international community must take steps to secure it.

The Mladić case offers an opportunity to assess not only the judgment itself, but also the legacy of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

The roots of the coup can be found both domestically, in the 2008 Constitution, and in the failure of the international community to hold Myanmar's military to account.

The complex and contested indirect co-perpetration theory of liability remains under a cloud at the ICC.